Best of Ilkari
Hello world! Fresh off of the digital press for rounding out 2024 – our first Best of Ilkari newsletter to kick off the holidays and take us into 2025!
The ingenious adventures of a modern data centre. Our new modern data centre built with Huawei in the Tocancipá Free Trade Zone near Bogotá, Colombia, racked up (pun intended) industry-leading certification after certification right from the start. It has the country’s top certifications, and it’s the first in Colombia to achieve both DCOS (Data Centre Operations Standard) Maturity Level 3 and TIA-942-C Rated-3. On top of that, our environmental standards stand out because our data centre conforms with SS564 (Sustainable Data Centre Standard) as a result of Colombia’s clean energy agenda. This story proved that you don’t have to settle for outdated, retrofitted or unsustainable practices when it comes to a secure location to store your data and protect your digital assets.
Psst… want to see how our data centre and colocation offering can give you the trust and control you’ve been looking for in a hybrid model? Reach out to Juan Aguirre, ja [at] ilkari [dot] tech and stay ahead of the sovereignty game.
Step right up to the greatest show on earth. In this case, we are talking about why colocation is a safe bet for the iGaming universe. In one of our most popular articles, our Chief Data Centre Officer, Bob Wright, takes a look at how the enormous increase in data from artificial intelligence, cloud gaming and virtual reality enhancements in iGaming, the demand for massive amounts of computing power is a challenge that won’t wait. This industry relies on connectivity, reliability, and security; customers don’t want a network lag or failure when they have a magical Royal Flush. One user’s slow connection is everyone’s slow connection, having a knock-on effect on everybody in a game. See what our favourite Scotsman has to say on what you can do now to stay in control of your data, digital assets and sovereignty.
Read: Making a safe bet with colocation in the igaming universe
Teamwork makes the dream work. In this Best Of story, we shine a light on the Ilkarians, friends of Ilkarians, partners of Ilkari and, well, just all things great about the support we have gotten on our solutions, our people and the world we want to build for you.
One of our most popular stories since our launch in August 2024 was this piece on a conversation between Mariella Santos and Con Spathas on what makes a company culture.
Here’s looking at you kid. In November, Ilkari announced it had acquired iGaming domain registrar Okens Domains at Sigma Europe. The support from the tech and iGaming community was a proud moment for the company. Our CEO, Shane Paterson, said the acquisition was part of the company’s long-term strategic mission to bring sovereign technology to the market and give operators privacy and control over their data, keeping iGaming companies ahead of the game. And our Chief Commercial Officer, Juan Aguirre was quoted in Sigma World on the convergence of igaming and cloud technologies.
And if you missed this news, check out this story on how Okens now triples its product offering.
Podcast vibes. Don’t miss Okens Domains podcast series, Let’s Talk here. With two new episodes with our CTO, James McLeod and Alona Borzhemska of WebPros in January 2025 with our host Alexander Kucherenko you won’t want to miss these candid insightful episodes.
Happy holidays from our Ilkarian family to yours!
